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MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1931.

STORY OF LONDON'S

- POLICE WHISTLE.

How It Made A Fortune.

INVENTED BY SHOEMAKER."

We paused at the door of a Soho restaurant as a police whistle thrill- ed sharply clear above the din of evening traffic.

At the sound of it, my companion raised his head, listening with n kindling smile.

"To me," he said, "that is the inost thrilling sound in London. If you heard a complete stranger shouting your family motte you would probably feel the same."

"Meaning? I queried. "Oh--that my father Invented the Metropolitan Police Whistle."

In Desperate Poverty. Thus do we stumble on the sagas of London. Had he claimed that his father Invented woad, or bullt Stonehenge. one would not have been more surprised, for with all the Cockney's ignorance of London institutions, I could scarce believe that the coming of the police whistle was an event within reach of two generations.

Over dinner, however, the story -and my

own education-pro- gressed.

COAL DISPUTES.

HOME SITUATION TO BE DISCUSSED.

WOMEN PICKETS.

London. Yesterday. The Government are interven- Ing in the South Wales coal dis- pute. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. William Graham, and Mr. E. Shinwell will discuss the situation with the miners representatives on Monday in London.

· Position In Germany.

Cologne, Yesterday, Notwithstanding the union load- ers' efforts to keep the men work Ing, the strike situation in the

coalfields is Ruhr

becoming worse. A high percentage of the 300,000 workers are idle and the situation is developing an ugly espect owing to Communist picket- ing. The pickets including women dressed in men's clothing. are forcibly preventing volunteers from reachling the pithends.

Frequent armed clashes with the police have taken place. In one case man being killed and several others wounded.-Reuter,

No Agreement Reached.

Rugby, Yesterday.

The Mines Department an- nounced last night that no agree- ment was renched at the meeting of the South Wales Joint Con- ciliation Board at Cardiff yester- The South Wales Miners' day. Federation has asked for a de- putation to be received by the Prime Minister, the President of Board of Trade and the Mines" of thirty or so he was living with Secretary which, it is expected,

will be arranged for Monday, British Wireless Service.

"We were a desperately poor little family," began my mentor, Mr. J. C. Hudson.

"When

my father, J. Hudson, was a young man

my mother in a mean street in a

Birmingham. poor part of

His tiny house was rented at 3s. 6d. a week!

"He had little education: reading

Inborious and writing were

0C-

cupations that he avoided as far as possible. And the various posts he held in engineering workaliupe were unimportant and poorly paid.

The Magle Tin Box. "We children began to arrive, and the family finances took a turn for the worse. To help things a bit, my father became that is, he devoted his spare time

Guest (at seasido boarding house): "The shaving water you brought me was very discoloured."

Maid: "Shaving water? was your teal"--

That

Pessing Show, London.

to repairing the boots of his friends and workmates, All the profits -week by week went into a tin box. That Is a very important

fact, as you shall see.

"My father had ideas. He al ways wanted to do things: to use his hands and brain. He bought an old fiddle and taught himself to play. He fashioned odds and ends for the house that could not be bought in shops. He had a natural sense of facile construction and a restless curiosity regarding me chanical devices.

EFFECT OF TARIFF.

FOUR THOUSAND BRITONS ON HALF-TIME.

THE CHINA MAIL.

EXPRESS TRAGEDY.

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT NEAR CARLISLE.

THREE KILLED.

London, Saturday.. The Edinburgh-London Expresa was derailed at a sharp curve at Carlisie. The nose of the engine was buried in the embankment and the front coaches were tele- scoped.

ed.

Four were killed and 12 injur

Later.

Only three are dead as a result of the Carlisle disaster, two men, who were identified as railway). employees as they had on their persons railway vouchers, And whose body, near

ene woman

theirs, is not identified.

NEW

SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

IN CHINA MAIL. ~

Social Functions.

To-day-Tea Dance at Hong Kong Hotel.

To-night Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels. To-night Whist, Drive, St. John's Cathedral Hall, 8.45 p.m.

To-morrow-St. George's Ball. Peninsula Hotel

Entertainments. To-day Queen's "Follies of 1930."

To-day - Central "Sarah and Son."

To-day-World 1

"Making the Grade."

The disaster occurred at sharp curve in the line facing the football feld, where soldiers from Carliste Castle were playing.

The first two coaches were tele- scoped.

London, Yesterday.

The woman victim of the Car- liale smash has been identified as Mrs. Janet Haworth, from Clap ham-Router.

LOAN TO CHINA.

TO HELP MARKETING OF CANADA'S WHEAT.

Mr.

BUYING POWER.

Ottawa, Yesterday. Stevens, the Canadian Minister for, Trade, referring to the Premier, Mr. Bennett's specch on December 31, as to which he stated Canada was taking steps

to arrange a large loan for Chinn to enable the marketing of wheaf and othe Canadian products in the Orient, stressed the necessity for co-operative action with other countries to rehabilitate the financing of oriental countries.

London, Saturday. Four thousand employees of the British-American Tobacco put on half time as a direct conseed a strong measure Company in Liverpool have been

quence of the new Chinese tariff.

Reuter.

before.

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To-day "Not Quite Decent."

To-day Majestic "The Divine Lady."

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Home Mails

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NOTICE.

R.

LL PERSONS in possession of FIREARMS are remiadod that they must obtain NEW or RENEW their. Existing Licences forthwith. All-Arma Licences ex- pired on DECEMBER 81st, 1930.

E. D. C. WOLFE, Inspector General of Police. 3rd January, 1931,

HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB

TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

TANTRY FORMS can now ba ob-i

tained at the PAVILION. ENTRIES CLOSE on January 17,

To-day-Inward from America AMERICAN

and ports (President Madison); San Europe via Outward for Francisco, 5 p.m.; and Europe via Siberia, 8 p.m. (President Cleve land).

To-morrow-Outward for Europe via Marseilles (Achilles and Sphinx), 2 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. r‡6- pectively.

Lammerts' Auction, Thursday At Sales Room, Dud- dell Street, blackwood furniture, household and office furniture, etc., 2.30 p.m.

Meetings. To-morrow - Sanitary Meeting, 4.15 p.m.,

Board

January 14-Meeting of Gradu- ates in the Great Hall of the University, 5.15 p.m.

Sports.

See Diary on page 12.

Miscellaneous. To-morrow-English Association Lecture, St. John's Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m.

STEPS TO BE TAKEN FOR THEIR ABOLITION,

He said the proposal hád secur- of support among the leading bankers of the world, as raising the standards of IRREGULAR TAXES. eastern civilisation would involve all increase of their buying Nevertheless, in borrow-power, thus supplying a market

for ed boots, trousers, shirt, and cont,

the commodities of Canada, he found himself that morning in other North American, and Euro- 1884 at Paddington Station, be- pean countries.--Reuter's Ameri- wildered but resolute. He made can Service his way on foot to Scotland Yard and told the man at the gate that he had come about a whistle'. He told everyone he saw that he had come about a whistle. He told it zo determinedly and so frequently that finally it reached the ears of

a high official, who immediately had my father brought before him.

"It seemed that there had been a mistake and my father's device was being considered by another firm. Scotland Yard lost no time in rectifying the error, and my father's rights were fully acknow ledged."

Hudson pere returned to Bir- mingham with a contract for 21,000 whistles, to be paid for as cach 500 lot was delivered. Immediately bo reached home he went to his "snob" box and found that his entire world. ly capital was £20, and with this he converted a smail room at the rear of his house into his first and bought his tools. factory Weeks of furious scheming and hard labour followed, but the 21,000 whistles were made and delivered without a hitch.

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STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

SHOOTING INCIDENT

LONDON IS NOT CHICAGO— AFTER ALL.

Mrs. Brian Mountain, wife of the only son of Sir Edward Mountain, Bt, was shot in the left arm as she

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walking through London's shopping district,

For one moment she thought she had been transplanted miraculously to Chicago. She had no idea whence the shot came. She had heard a loud "pop" and, almost simultaneously, felt a sharp pain. It was mid-day. She was sur- rounded by people. Was she mad7 But as soon as she touched her arm she knew that, it was wet-and wet with blood.

"I really thought at first that I had been put on the spot," said Mrs. Mountain to a Daily Express Peking, Saturday. representative. "I clutched my Contrary to all expectations, arm, and sold to the people near [On December 31, in his first public General Chang Hsuch-liang of me, I've been shot! But they all speech since his return from London, the Manchurian and Northern seemed to think I was mad. in dealing with the grain marketing Government, has issued a pro- "Than I found one man who mut- problem, Mr. Bennett said that nogo-clamation announcing the deter-tered something about going for lations had been opened, under the mination of the Manchurian ad- the police. That was the last Federal Credit Guarantees Acts, Zor

for Canadian ministration to co-operate with thing I wanted-ambulances and enlarging the market and and other products in China Nanking for the abolition of all everything, and being taken, per-

elsewhere in the East.]

irregular taxes in Fengtien, haps, to a police station. Heilungkiang, Kirin, Jehol,

Bullet Falls Out. Chihli, Shauзi, etc., districts "So I left him muttering, and under his direct control.

managed to find a taxicab, into Stating that during his recent which I crawled, Then I went visit to Nanking he had arrived home.. at a complete understanding with "I have had my aim X-rayed be- the Nanking Finance, Minister, cause I thought the ballet might Mr. T. V. Soong, General Chang be in it, but, apparently, the bullet, Hsueh-liang said that in future after wounding me, fell out in my tax administration in his seven sleeve. I am not seriously injured, Provinces in North China would but I had a lucky escape," follow regulations and procedures The mystery of the "shooting". laid down by the Nanking Minis- was cleared up, when detectives visited a gunsmith's shop, past which Mrs. Mountain had been walking when she was hit. They found, in the basement, a frighten- ed small boy, who is employed In the shop, and an old air-gun.

AFRICA AIR MAIL.

INAUGURAL FLIGHT FROM CAIRO.

Rugby, Saturday. The Imperial Airways announce

from Cairo to

that 2,670 miles of the North Africa section of the London to Capetown air route will be opened on Thursday, March 5, with an in- try..

Peking, Saturday. augural flight

Honan, Chikli, Shansi, and Mwanza, Tanganyika Territory.

The flight through from London Suiyuan provinces announce the

abolition of likin-Reuter. to Mwanza covers a distance of and will take nina 5,100 miles days, against 24 days by surface transport.

The North Africa section

be.

tween Calro and Khartoum will be operated by machines of the Arm strong Siddeley Argoay type, and Short "Calcutta" flying boats will to Kishumu carry on the route and Mwanza along the Nile and African lakes.

Then the world woke up. Here was a device of Infinite purpose, a "But he remained very poor One day he heard that Scotland whistle that, tested by Scotland Yard was prepaced to consider sug-Yard on Clapham Common, had gestions for a method of com- proved to have a carrying power of Hudson had not to munication between policemen on their beats. At that time police wait for fortune after that; it

It is hoped that by May 1931 thrust itself upon him from every. summoned ald by means of cum- bersome hand rattles which left corner of the earth. The Army the full 8,000 miles from London them only one hand to tackle a stand Navy ordered whistles; forty to Capetown will be in operation, constabularies were bringing London within eleven provincial pect. A satisfactory alternative was equipped in the first three months; days of Capetown.-British Wire wanted at once..

"My father thought about it for fire brigades, convict prisons, less Service.

Government depart- many days. It was while he was Asylums and playing his fiddle that the idea ments joined in the rush,

Saved Contad's Life. „acress two strings you achieve a

distinctive chord. Substituto the wasthe Archbishop of York; flow of air from the lips for the bow though what should an Archbishop and two metal pipes of different want with a whistle?: Another lengths for the violin strings, and was H. M. Stanley who was pre- would the effect be the same? sented with a whistle by Mine

struck him. When you draw a bow On of the first civilians supplied

My father fried it. He divided Tennant, whom he afterwards mar- a short metal tube into two parts ried. He used the whistle to sum- so that one side of the barrel was mon his native servants throughout shorter than the other. Then he his search for Livingstone. You devised a mouthpiece with a raised may see that same whistle to-day in collar to be gripped in the teeth the Stanley. Museum,

Paris, Saturday.

ARRESTS IN ITALY,

EX-MINISTER SENT TO CONVICT ISLAND.

The entrance to the basemont from the pavement is covered by a grating; and it is established that

the bay, who was playing with the

gun, pressed the trigger in some way and so "fred" a pellet upwarda through the grating. The gun is a powerful one....

Milan, Nov. 6.

It seems that the gun had been In Signor Bortolo Belotti, à former

& considerable Conservative Minister, who was ar the basement for rested here a few days ago, has beenne. It was not from stock, and condemned by the Provincial Com- its existence was not even suspect- mission, composed of the Prefected by the management. and other officials, to be relegated to the convict faland. Although no official Informatiph is available it is Bald that this measure has been taken because of a private letter in which Signor Belotti used expres sions offensive to Fascism.

A Paris to Saigon sir line was opened by the departure at 10:30 this morning of a three-engined monoplane on a journey that Is Scheduled to take twelve days.political arrests lately here and in

Reuter,

CAPE FLIGHT.

FAMOUS BRITISH PILOT CRASHES.

Tunis, Saturday.

without use of either hand, This "And we have just learned," add- Captain Barnard and Lord Love device the first and original ed. Mr. Hudson, that indirectly we lace, accompanied by an Ameri whistle gave a double note of good saved the life of the late Joseph can mechanic, and dying to Cape quality and power... And if you Conrad His wife relates the Town from England, have crash examine a London policeman's story of how he allpped into a ed nt Tripolt. All were badly in whistle to-day you will find it is treacherous bog and she cank jured Beuter. exactly as 1 have told you deeper he fired his rife until his "Having made a few samples of ammunition was exhausted NO hls whistle, and

alone came.When only his head

my father: sent

were free ha blow an old. tan poller whistle that round his neck on a boot

tive fervant, rácozule

znaned to his mister's

CORINTH "QUAKE,

NUMBER OF HOUSES DESTROYED

Athena, Yesterday

has destroyed; *

CURZON & INDIA.

NEW EXPLANATION OF HIS RESIGNATION.

There have been several other

London, Nov. 21. A new explanation of the reason other cities, all among professors for Lord Curzon's resignation of and professional men. One of the Vice-Royalty was given by these, Signor Ernesto Rossi, Profes-Lord Middleton (Secretary of sor of Economics, made a drama State for India, 1903-5) In a tic attempt at escape, described in speech at Guildford to day, to-day's Corriero della Sera: While He said Lord Balfour, before being taken from Bergamo to Rome, his death desired him to correct Professor Rossi succeeded during a statement in the biography of the night in eluding the vigilance of Lord Curzon representing that his guard and threw himself from Lord Curzon was withdrawn from the train, which was travelling at India owing to personal differ- full speed, just before it reached the ences with Kitchener. station of Viareggio (Ples) He The trouble was that Lord wes unhurt and wandered about all Curzon desired to direct the for aight in the hope of keeping out of eign policy of India regardless of the way of the polica, But the the possibile effect on the whole Authorities, advised of what had Empire, thus raising a constitu happened, made a wide search ptional question of the highest the country around, Viareggio with order, namely, whether the Im Carabinieri, police, and Fascist perial Government or the Viceroy Militle and in the early morning controlled the foreign polley of Professor Rossi was recaptured, India,

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